LA Raza: Education, jobs, health top Latino agenda
WASHINGTON – Lack of quality education, health care, and good jobs, and widespread discrimination define the “State of Hispanic America” and are critical issues for Latinos in the 2004 election, said Raul Yzaguirre, president of the National Council of La Raza.
California Students fight for college dreams
OAKLAND, Calif. – When you meet Sherita Cobb you are reminded of Lorraine Hansberry’s writings, “To be young, gifted and Black.”
Cleveland in contention
The Thrill and the Agony This week in sports by Chas Walker
March 4 action for health care rights
Jobs with Justice and hundreds of local unions, retiree groups and health care advocacy organizations, including the Universal Health Care Action Network (UHCAN), have set a national “Health Care Action Day” to link workers’ struggles against premium cost-shifting and cuts in essential health care services to the larger movement to win universal health care reform.
Wall Street loves Bush budget
Under the Bush administration, the federal debt has reached record dollar amounts. The latest budget, which claims to cut the deficit in half in five years, is a work of fiction – under the Bush program, real deficits will continue to soar.
Bush sneaks in another extremist judge
Reaction to George W. Bush’s Feb. 20 back-door appointment of Alabama Attorney General William Pryor as a U.S. appeals court judge was swift and scathing.
National Clips
NASHVILLE, Tenn.: State defies drug companies, Bush / WASHINGTON: U.S. marshals provide poor health care / NORCROSS, Ga.: Fifth-graders create Black history museum
Kucinich: the most unreported story of 2004
WASHINGTON – The most underreported story of the 2004 election is the never-give-up, never-give-in campaign of Rep. Dennis Kucinich (D-Ohio) for president.
Ishmael Flory, fighter for equality, 96
Ishmael Flory, veteran trade union organizer, activist in the African American freedom movement, and a longtime leader of the Communist Party in Illinois, died Feb. 4 in Chicago following a long illness. He was 96.
Rx gap hits Blacks, Latinos
The Nation’s Health Workers’ Safety Working-age African Americans and Latinos are much more likely than white Americans to report they cannot afford all of their prescription drugs, according to a new study by the Center for Studying Health System Change (HSC).
